No. PNG176
Nasioi
Papua New Guinea · Bougainville · Oceania · Sahul
Restricted
Swung fast on its cord, the flat blade throbs like a voice rising out of the forest — but what the Nasioi of the Kieta hills, in southeast Bougainville, made that voice say was never written down. It belonged to initiation, and to the taboos that stood between men and women.
Particulars
- Function
- Associated with initiation ceremonies and with taboos and restrictions between the sexes.
Source
K. A. Gourlay, Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society: A Study of Esoteric Instruments and Their Role in Male-Female Relations (New Guinea Research Bulletin 60; Canberra and Port Moresby, 1975), Table 1, entry 176